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David La Spina
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Physics geeks, check it out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4483221.stm
This is a wonderful interview with Michio Kaku - one of the biggest minds in
physics today - about some of the latest ideas in physics, including string
theory and the idea that we live in a multiverse instead of a single universe.
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John Byrne
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Multiple universes are a lot older as a concept than DC Comics. Science fiction has sort of seized on the notion of parallel universes as alternate universes -- the one where Hitler won, the one where Abraham Lincoln shot President John Wilkes Booth, the one where JFK wasn't assasinated and the world ended in nuclear armageddon -- and with an infinite number of such parallel universes, it is true that pretty much anything which does not defy the laws of physics (which may be "different" elsewhere anyway) can happen.Just don't look for eTickets on Expedia.com any time soon.
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Richard Fisher
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John Byrne wrote:
| the one where JFK wasn't assasinated and the world ended in nuclear armageddon |
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That was one of my favorite episodes of Red Dwarf.
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Bill Dowling
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Don't forget the World With No Shrimp and the World With Nothing But Shrimp!
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Dave Carr
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Professor Hubert Farnsworth has already proven that there is only one parallel universe. It's the one where everyone is a cowboy.
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Joe Zhang
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In a recent issue of Discover, mathemetician Roger Penrose says
probably not. He posits that the force of gravity keeps quantum
phenomena localized to very small masses, around the magnitude of a
particle of dust. They are currently working on experiments to prove
this.
Edited by Joe Zhang on 15 June 2005 at 10:10am
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Lars Johansson
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Thanks a lot for that interview. It was great. I think we all agree on that there is at least one more dimension out there, because if we go in one direction we will end up in the same place. Whether the dimensions are out there is the question or trapped inside strings I don't know. There are in maths at least 10 dimensions. That's basic knowledge. Great that he mentioned H G Wells and he actually explained how he got invisible. With that teqnique the invisible man would be able to pass through walls and go into locked rooms, since he could just enter the fourth dimension and there it's not covered. OK, we are soon being able to see the birth of the universe.
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Stephen Rockwood
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I really like Kaku's book Hyperspace. He seems to have a knack
for putting scientific concepts into layman's terms. I tried
finding his other book but was never able to track it down.
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David La Spina
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Stephen, do you mean this one?
Parallel Worlds
His book on Einstein is one of my favorites:
Einstein's Cosmos
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John Byrne
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the one where JFK wasn't assasinated and the
world ended in nuclear armageddon
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That was one of my favorite episodes of Red Dwarf.
*****
Watched half of the first episode of "Red Dwarf" and
gave up. Not my cup of tea.
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John Benson
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It may be an aquired taste.
Red Dwarf was showing on PBS, just in the background, while I was working on other things. It didn't connect right away but it grew on me. Evetually, the bizarre Sci-fi hooked me. Now they don't show it anymore, once I got interested, of course.
PBS is great but sometimes the local station makes me wonder.
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Gregg Allinson
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Red Dwarf's first two seasons are brilliant. I love the premise of a guy trapped for all eternity with his archenemy, with only a senile computer and a retarded humanoid cat to keep him company. The "Your father is dad? Well, of course he is!" bit from Better than Life is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. In the third season, it started straying away from the original premise. Seasons 3&4 are pretty good, and 5&6 almost work if you take them as serious SF (Lister breaking onto the replicant ship with an empty bazookoid to steal food is pretty damned bleak). I saw about half of season 7 and it was so morbidly unfunny and unengaging that I gave up midway through and cannot be persuaded to watch season 8 no matter how many friends of mine reccomend it.
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